Apollo 17 Audio Excerpt, December 7, 1972 (NASA-UAP-D009)
- Date
- 12/7/72 (per official index)
- Location
- Cislunar Space (per official index)
- Agency
- NASA
- Release
- Release 02 (May 22, 2026)
- Type
- audio
Summary
Audio item (MP4 file); no transcript was provided and the audio was not transcribed here, so this summary rests on the index text alone. Per index: During the eleventh and final crewed mission in the Apollo program, Apollo 17 Commander Gene Cernan, Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt, and Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans report seeing small lights outside the Apollo spacecraft during transit to the moon. The crew describe bright “particles” or “fragments” as being “jagged,” “angular,” and drifting near the Apollo spacecraft and the separated Saturn S-IVB stage.
Note
No transcript was provided; contents are known only from the index text.